Ethics board will stamp out corruption in Brussels, says European Commission Vice-President

12.06.2023 - 16:23 euronews.com

Euronews Vera Jourova, thanks very much for being on Euronews. Six months have passed since the biggest since one of the biggest corruption scandals of the history of the European Union.

And according to the latest polls the majority of the Europeans, in fact, 60% of them are unhappy about how the EU is dealing with corruption.

Are you surprised? Věra Jourová It does not surprise me, but at the same time, it gives me another impulse to do something about that.

And it doesn't matter where the scandal appeared. It was one of the institutions, probably the failure more of individual people than of the system.

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